I got bad news, lawyers and automation engineers will make software development even more boring in the next years. More responsibilities to comply, less of those simple tasks that let you breath between hard problems. I work in automation for one of the big SW/HW players.
Tell HN: I love programming but am sick of the software industry
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Re: Tell HN: I love programming but am sick of the software industry
#32I'll give you an a look into the company I work for ( a small saas thats already 15 years old). We constantly look to upgrade our systems and processes starting from colocated servers finally to docker and aws hosting with testing automation. We've grown or QA team and automated testing team greatly and always allow room for better tools and processes. I work as UX and product as well as some development. 6 years ago we migrated to angular and now we are onto React and storybook and several other tools that help us build better software. The backend team has gone from DIY php to symphony then to java and finally to kotlin. We have a weekly book club where we go through one chapter of a tech or business process book. I guess from all of this I can suggest you find a (usually smaller) team that's responsible and willing to make the job interesting yet make sense from a business perspective. Personally developer happiness is a significant (though not majority) part of that equation including pay. I hope this has been helpful at least in providing ideas that may work for you. Good luck
Re: Tell HN: I love programming but am sick of the software industry
#33Programming, at least what is called programming when we like to do it solo without constraints, and corporate software engineering (what we do for payment) are completely different things. I like programming actually and corporate programming is necessary evil for money which somewhat distantly resembles what you like. If you separate those things you won't have a confusion.
Corporate software engineering is somewhat boring and frustrating indeed, it's still better ratio of boredom/comfort/payment than any other speciality for me and my skills.
About misconceptions in community, indeed there are a lot, and they are too deep to overturn it singlehandedly in a reasonable time, they are established by a ton of smart/intelligent people and learned like a dogma by other normals. There's no hard proof of those patterns, paradigms so it's some kind of religious belief you'd better not argue with or will be burned at the stake. Be happy it's only a metaphor.